Job Location: Houston, Texas Contract: C2C/W2/1099 Job Description: 10+ years of experience in enterprise integration architecture or solution architecture 5+ years designing cloud-based integration solutions on Microsoft Azure Deep expertise with Kafka-based streaming architectures Strong experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous messaging Experience designing API-first and microservices-based integration architectures Hands-on Experience: Kafka topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups Kafka Connect and stream processing High-throughput distributed messaging systems Experience integrating cloud and on-premise enterprise systems Strong understanding of integration patterns and enterprise architecture frameworks.